A neoliberal propaganda as thorough and charming as it gets. An unscrupulous romanticization of the "modern" and "cool" strategies for exploiting the workforce. It goes to such an absurd extent as to actually idealize the crisis that neoliberalism has posed unto the very notion of retirement, as if the solution is not to tackle the issue itself but rather to take "the best out of it" (as if such a thing were possible) by realizing that even though you now…

Living on the sidelines of progress' statistics. The opening sequence is brilliant in how it exhausts the reach of statistics when it comes to understanding a city's interpersonal relationship system, in how it so accurately identifies the point where the numbers are so precise in so many different areas that they must be meaningless, because the effort to conjure them is also, at some level, the willingness to abstract the limits of materiality (which the final shot hauntingly depicts). The…